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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-6-12
pubmed:abstractText
A 75-year-old man with relapsed follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma confined to a solitary lung mass was treated with radioimmunotherapy (RIT) using yttrium 90-ibritumomab tiuxetan. Imaging with positron emission tomography/computed tomography showed a complete response 3 months after RIT. Thirteen months after RIT, his positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan showed a fluorodeoxyglucose-avid infiltrate in the area of the previous lung mass. Bronchoscopy revealed the area to be obstructed with fibrosis, and cytologic washings and brushings did not show lymphoma. The patient remains asymptomatic, and the fluorodeoxyglucoseavid pulmonary infiltrate was unchanged 19 months after RIT. In view of the lack of respiratory symptoms or progressive imaging abnormalities, we believe radiation fibrosis is the most likely etiology. Radiation-induced lung injury after therapy with yttrium 90 was previously reported in the setting of intraarterial microspheres used to treat inoperable hepatic tumors. This is the first case in which radiation-induced radiographic changes are reported after RIT for lymphoma.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1557-9190
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
7
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
369-72
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Antibodies, Monoclonal, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Diagnosis, Differential, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Laryngeal Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Lung Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Lymphoma, Follicular, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Male, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Neoplasm Recurrence, Local, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Positron-Emission Tomography, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Radiation Pneumonitis, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Radioimmunotherapy, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Recurrence, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Sensitivity and Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Tomography, X-Ray Computed, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Treatment Outcome, pubmed-meshheading:17562248-Yttrium Radioisotopes
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Focal radiation fibrosis after radioimmunotherapy for follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Hematology/Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports